Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to illuminating backlights based on dominant colors presented on a display. Dominant colors of portions of the display are determined. Backlights of a keyboard are caused to be illuminated to colors based on respective dominant colors.
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1. A computing system comprising: a display to present images; a color determination module to determine a first color that is dominant at a first portion of the display and a second color that is dominant at a second portion of the display; a keyboard including a first backlight associated with a first section of the keyboard and a second backlight associated with a second section of the keyboard; and a illumination module to cause colored illumination of the first backlight based on a function of the first color and to cause colored illumination of the second backlight based on a function of the second color.
2. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the first backlight is to be illuminated to the first color and the second backlight is to be illuminated to the second color.
3. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the first backlight and the second backlight respectively include tri-color light emitting diodes.
4. The computing system of claim 1 , further comprising: a third backlight associated with a third section of the keyboard, wherein the color determination module is to determine a third color that is dominant at a third portion of the display, and wherein the illumination module is caused to illuminate the third backlight based on the third color.
5. The computing system of claim 4 , wherein the computing system is a laptop computer further comprising: a keyboard base pivotally connected to the display, wherein the keyboard is disposed upon the keyboard base, and wherein the first section, the second section, and the third section respectively physically correspond to the first portion, the second portion, and the third portion.
6. The computing system of claim 1 , further comprising: an optical sensor to sense color information about the first portion and the second portion and wherein the first color and the second color are based on the color information.
7. The computing system of claim 1 , further comprising: a graphics controller to control the images on the display, wherein the graphics controller provides color information about the first portion and the second portion to the color determination module, wherein the first color and the second color are based on the color information.
8. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the illumination of the first backlight contrasts from the first color and the illumination of the second backlight contrasts from the second color.
9. A method comprising: presenting images on a display of a computing system, wherein the display includes a plurality of portions; determining, at a color determination module, a plurality of dominant colors each respectively associated with one of a plurality of portions of the display; and controlling, via a controller, illumination of a plurality of colored backlit zones of a keyboard of the computing system to respective colors, wherein each of the colored backlit zones is based on a function of the corresponding dominant colors.
10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising: determining the dominant colors based on color information received from a graphics controller controlling the images.
11. The method of claim 9 , wherein each of the colored backlit zones contrast their respective dominant colors.
12. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that, if executed by at least one processor of a device, cause the device to: control images on a display; determine a plurality of dominant colors each respectively associated with one of a plurality of portions of the display; and cause illumination of a plurality of backlit zones of a keyboard of the device to respective colors, wherein each of the colored backlit zones corresponds to one of the dominant colors.
13. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 12 , further comprising instructions that, if executed by the at least one processor, cause the device to: control at least one multi-color light emitting diode for each of the backlit zones to illuminate the respective colored backlit zones.
14. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 12 , further comprising instructions that, if executed by the at least one processor, cause the device to: receive optical sensor information about the respective portions of the display, wherein the dominant colors are determined based on the respective optical sensor information corresponding to the respective portions.
15. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the backlit zones are lit based on a function of the respective dominant colors.
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